Hello everyone
I'm new to Gentoo and trying to figure this out by google'ing/searching forums on my problem. I recently used Unetbootin to mount the recent install-x86-minimal iso because my notebook does not have a CD drive. When i booted the flash I get a couple of errors.

kk so i downloaded the system rescue, and so far everything is booted up right. I'm using the startx to get the gui and went back to command line with networking. so far i've got my fdisk partitions fixed. and right now downloading and about to Tar my stage3. i'll let you all know how its going thank you again for the help_________________learning the ropes

but i dont understand when its telling me "You should have used uvesafb as the VESA driver." I dont remember doing this step. Nor can i find the "video=uvesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1024x768-32@85" that specifies my notebook (eee pc 1000he)

so i skipped the framebuffer part after searching the forums for a good hour and went to emerging grub. All is going great and i modify my grub.conf... buuuut now it doesn't want to let me save my grub.conf. it tells me the following.

(i entered the grub.conf using "nano -w")

error writing /boot/grub/grub.conf: Read-only file system

can someone help me with these please

by the way my grub.conf looks a little like this. if you want to give me some pointers please do

i went here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml to try and solve the error 15, and when i went through everything again i just ended back to the error. I'm not comfortable enough to do my own make menuconfig so i went with genkernel so im thinking its not that but something wrong with my grub.conf_________________learning the ropes

should show a system map file, a kernel file, and an initramfs file. The exact spelling of the kernel file name and the initramfs file name must be used in grub.conf. An initrd must appear in grub.conf for a genkernek kernel unless you modified menuconfig to have hard drive and file system drivers built into the kernel instead of as modules.

good morning they need to put a donate button under you guys lol, but i did as you said and i took the USB flash out right after reboot and it worked as a charm ... now on to setting up a desktop, thank you for everything. though im sure i'm still going to need a tad more guidance. you're the best!_________________learning the ropes

hello hello tomorrow i have off again to work on this project. I want to work on the KDE desktop and here it gives me the guide http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE to do so. just a few quick questions

1) Do i use sysresccd to do this?
2) Do i chroot to install this or just mount and install
and
3) if i dont need to use sysresccd do i just hardwire the internet in eth0 and use root to install?_________________learning the ropes

*sysklogd-> start: sysklogd ...
syslogd: /car/log/news/news.crit: no such file or directory
syslogd: /car/log/news/news.err: no such file or directory
syslogd: /car/log/news/news.notice: no such file or directory
syslogd: /dev/xconsole: no such file or directory
*sysklogd -> start: klogd ...
*starting dcron ...
*bringing up interface eth0
* ERROR: interface eth0 does not exist
* Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel module for your hardware
*ERROR: net.eth0 failed to start
*ERROR: cannot start netmount as net.eth0 would not start
*starting local

for the sysklogd i forgot to install logrotate... hopefully that will change the "no such file or directory" part
EDIT:: soo it installing logrotate did not change the no such file or directory so i just made a folder and that fixed the problem, but it doesn't work for /dev/xconsole.

Code:

mkdir /mnt/gentoo/var/log/news

I looked at my /etc/conf.d/net in chroot and out of chroot i have this in chroot

and look at the interface names. udev likes to rename them.. if your interfaces are renamed you can prevent renaming by running

Code:

touch /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules

creating an empty file that udev will notice and respond to by not renaming interfaces. Or you can adapt to the new names by changing the names in /etc/conf.d/net and in the symlinks in directory /etc/init.d._________________Defund the FCC.

ok i reconfigured the modules and got it going as you stated. i get a dummy0, lo, and wlan0. I've plugged in a cable to try and get internet and im not receiving packets nor sending. how do i activate either the wireless or wired for internet access to continue the setup for kde desktop?_________________learning the ropes